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Harvard’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism has selected 28 journalists from the United States and around the world for its 69th class of fellows, including Dexter Filkins, a Baghdad correspondent for the New York Times. Like several of the other fellows, he will focus his studies the U.S.’s interaction with the Islamic world. Filkins’ research will examine the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and look at the relationship between the Western and Islamic worlds after September 11th. Eliza Griswold, another Nieman fellow and a freelance journalist whose byline has appeared...
...imminent Harvard graduate, pondering what to do with the phase of life that starts with graduation and ends with death, might find the beginnings of guidance in the directive written atop Dexter Gate. Sure to be repeated ad nauseum in the coming weeks (its biweekly appearance in this column’s title was just the beginning), it reads, “Depart to serve better thy country and thy kind.” Seeking further guidance, the graduate would find none; the instruction offers little insight into how, exactly, we are supposed to “serve better?...
...Alabama. The hotel stands next to Union Station, the city’s railway stop turned swanky visitors’ center, stocked with promo maps that show tourists where to find the Rosa Parks Museum and Library or the house where Martin Luther King Jr. lived while preaching at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church...
...sounds politically fraught, cop shows have always been: whether you focus on crime's punishment or its causes is to some people a key dividing line between conservative and liberal. But the toughest antihero for middle America to warm to may be the lead actor of Showtime's forthcoming Dexter, a serial killer who has channeled his impulses by becoming a forensics expert who solves crimes, then offs the criminals. "If you're compelled to kill," jokes Hall, "it may as well be people who deserve...
...premise is chilling, but viewers are meant to identify with Dexter because he's aware of his pathology and struggles with it. "There is something inherently good about him," says Hall. "He's lovable, which is what creates the ambiguity." America in love with a bloodthirsty killer who slaughters menaces to society? Maybe Tony Soprano really does have something to worry about...